NEWS
Tezos mainnet is live!
The community has been actively engaged, with more than 400 validators (“bakers”) scheduled for an upcoming cycle. In addition, the community has been developing an array of exciting technologies and other tools to increase community engagement, understanding of the network, and adoption.
As a result, we now consider the beta period concluded, and while active development still continues, we are pleased to regard the Tezos network as the mainnet.
France passes the most progressive legislation on ICOs
The French parliament has passed on Wednesday what looks like the most progressive and the most innovative legislative framework on Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs).
That makes them the world’s first national legislative body to pass a law on ICOs and on the surface it looks like a very reasonable regulatory framework.
Loom Network presents - ERC-721x
ERC721x is an extension of ERC721 that adds support for multi-fungible tokens and batch transfers, while maintaining full backward compatibility.
Hackers pay fake EOS to get real crypto from DEX
Taking advantage of a bug, hackers have stolen about $58,000 in crypto from the Newdex platform. They have managed to make the local computer system take fake EOS tokens for real ones. As a result, BLACK, ADD and IQ + EOS coins went missing and right into their pockets.
Ethereum dapp Bancor is building a bridge to the EOS network
Bancor, a decentralized cryptocurrency exchange (DEX) protocol and one of the most popular decentralized applications (dApps) on the Ethereum network, has announced that it will bring trustless token trading to the recently-launched EOS blockchain.
Remix IDE v0.7.0 released
This release includes many significant changes and is available at http://remix.ethereum.org and npm. The electron desktop app will soon be provided.
FEED
Proof of Work is efficient
Most people think Bitcoin’s PoW is “wasteful.” In this article, I explore how everything is energy, money is energy, energy usage is subjective, and PoW’s energy costs relative to existing governance systems. This article is a collection of direct thoughts from many individuals in the space — my value add was in the aggregation, distillation, and combination of narratives.
Debunking market narratives: Litecoin
Narratives are an immensely powerful tool, so much so, that experts generally attribute civilization’s rapid development to humans’ ability to efficiently tell stories. Due to their impact on human behavior, narratives can significantly affect our perception of value. In the current crypto market climate, reality is often overlooked in favor of narrative propagation. As such, it is important to evaluate the accuracy of popular beliefs, and separate the signal from the noise. Let us delve deeper through an analysis of Litecoin.
How to make smart contracts upgradable!
Generally, developers can easily upgrade their software but blockchains are different as they are immutable. If we deploy a contract then it is out there with turning back no longer an option. However, if we use proper techniques, we can deploy a new contract at a different address and render the old contract useless. Following are some of the most common techniques for creating upgradable smart contracts.
The 4th era of crypto: Crypto-institutionalization.
Every crypto era has its driving force. The first was Bitcoin, then came Altcoins, then the utility tokens and platforms. The next era is being led by traditional financial institutions, banks, and even central banks. They are bringing big money with them, but they are also taking crypto and making it more like the old financial system.
BLOCKCHAIN FOR NEWBIES
In blockchain we trust
To understand why blockchain matters, look past the wild speculation at what is being built underneath, argue the authors of The Age of Cryptocurrency and its newly published follow-up, The Truth Machine: The Blockchain and the Future of Everything.
A primer on Mining 2.0
If you look at last few years of crypto investing, VCs have largely looked at crypto companies effectively as decentralized companies -- as equities. But, as things have played out, value hasn’t accrued to equity in the parent company; it has instead accrued to the token network. Speculative value, to be sure, but value nonetheless.
Step by step approach to create dapp
In this article, we are going to see the step by step approach to create Decentralized Application using Ethereum Public Blockchain (using Solidity, ReactJS & IPFS).
Avoiding out-of-gas error in large Ethereum smart contracts
This article will describe several methods that could be used to place large smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain.
The ultimate guide to app coins and protocol tokens
A lot of people face immense confusion over the differences between the different kinds of coins and tokens out there in the crypto space…and for good reason. With the sheer amount of projects out there, it could incredibly tough for someone, new to the space, to keep up with everything.
The ultimate guide to whitepapers
Before ICOs became a household name, companies in the fiat world were already doing IPOs or Initial Public Offerings. The idea is very simple. Private companies become publicly traded by selling shares of their company to the public. IPOs require a lot of due diligence, formalities, and paperwork. Because of this, several deserving companies lost out on lucrative opportunities.
This is when ICOs came in and changed everything.
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